Hiring employees is just a start to creating a strong work force. Next, you have to keep them. High employee turnover costs business owners in time and productivity. Try these tactics to retain your employees. – Offer a competitive benefits package that fits your employees’ needs. Providing health insurance, life insurance and a retirement-savings plan…
DetailsYou know better than to ask a job candidate how old he or she is. But employee-side lawyers are crafty, and can build an age discrimination lawsuit around queries that seem a lot more innocent. What not to ask Some examples from a recent post on The EmpLAWerologist blog: How long would you stay with us?…
DetailsA decade ago in Las Vegas — where I spent eight years as an education beat reporter — the school district was a boom town of soaring student enrollment, breaking ground on a new campus every month. With the need for more classroom seats came an equally pressing shortage: principals. To be asked to open…
DetailsJesse Mecham, CEO of YNAB (You Need a Budget), ran his money management training and software venture in Provo, Utah, by himself for the first year and a half after launching it in 2004. Then software engineer Taylor Brown emailed, offering to help add functionality to the software Mecham had created. The fact that Brown…
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